A Late Christmas HDR

Just thought I would share this shot I took on Tuesday 22nd December at King George Square in Brisbane's CBD. This is a 3 shot HDR taken at +/- 2.0 EV steps, in Pentax RAW format (PEF). I took it using a my tripod, K200D and Pentax SMC DA 18-55mm AL II f3.5-5.6 lens with +2.0 EV bias (this means the shots is actually 0 EV +2 EV and +4 EV), no filters. I used the +2 starting EV to get more details from the christmas lights. The base shot settings were f13, 10 secs, ISO 100 in Av (Aperture priority) mode.

Processing was as follows

Lightroom 2.5

• Import
• Export all 3 files as 16-bit TIFF format

Photomatix

• Generate HDR - settings shown below
• Tone Mapped using Details Enhancer method - settings shown below
• Save As 16-bit TIFF

Lightroom

• Import
• Crop (rotated slightly)
• Export to JPG for Web